A Kind of Archeology: Collecting American Folk Art, 1876–1976

A comprehensive look at folk art’s earliest collectors and their motivations. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in the field, it is lavishly illustrated with all the expected favorites, as well as many rarely seen or seldom-documented works. A work of great scholarship, yet easily accessible. By Elizabeth Stillinger. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011. 448 pages, hardcover, 10 x 9 1/4 in.